Stefano Zacchiroli dijo [Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:50:01PM +0100]: > > Uhm, why postpone this so long? I'd hope we could find a consensus quite > > soon. > > Then, we might not be able to fix _all_ web apps until squeeze, but at > > least > > tthose few with dir-or-file-in-var-www :-) > > I see it a tad more complicate than you, let's hope its me > overestimating the task :-) > > - the agreement actually should not come among web app maintainers, but > rather among web *server* maintainers: they should agree over a > specific dir and change the default configuration of the web server so > that that dir is the document root (for the default vhost, for web > servers supporting vhosts) > > * possibly, migrating to that would require offering migration paths > to package users
That's easy, as there is fewer of us than web app maintainers. And it is a first step. We might even have a transitional symlink making /var/www point to /var/lib/www or whatnot? > - then you might start migrating web apps packages so that they install > (static) stuff under that dir, preserving the per-package path as > detailed in the webapps-common policy > > - then, the rule should go into policy (possibly under §9.1.1, has an > exception to FHS, not sure about the section though) and that can't > happen before due to the usual practice-should-predate-policy > > If it were me to try to achieve this, I would go for a DEP to keep track > of consensus, ... but no, I'm not willing to drive this, at least not > now :-) It is a bit ambitious to have it _completely_ done by Squeeze. But we can start pushing the right way. And anyway, I do not feel it is asking too much. Yes, we cannot just go from using /var/www to having its existence violate policy and making insta-RC, but as soon as the (major at least) webserves change their defaults, we can start filing wishlist bugs, pointing maintainers to this being a work in progress and expecting it to be strictly enforced by policy for squeeze+1. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
